Chicago Lou wrote:
>>There's nothing "elite" or "arrogant" about either one.  And everyone here knows THAT, too.<<

True....doesn't negate the entire article, though.
Ah.  You want the REST of it negated too?  Okay.
Disappointed progressive pundits also resonate this angst over having to deal with childlike Americans. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recently psychoanalyzed the falling support for the president by claiming that "The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats."
A lot of them ARE.  The Republicans are all bent out of shape because THEY LOST, and Obama is doing a lot of stuff THEY DON'T LIKE!  Boo hoo.

Worse yet, at least one of them has gone ahead and said "we're fed up" with Obama... after LESS THAN TWO YEARS.  We had to put up with Bush and all of HIS idiocy for EIGHT years, to include two wars AND what's now being called THE Great Recession.  But THEY'RE "fed up".  WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!

And a lot of Democrats are getting bent out of shape because he, and more to the point, the damn SENATE, aren't doing anywhere near as MUCH as they said they would, nor as fast.  Boo hoo too.

In 2006, Kerry warned students that if they did poorly in school, they could "get stuck in Iraq." He apparently had forgotten that soldiers volunteer for military service, and are overwhelmingly high school graduates.
Maybe.  Maybe he thought they might get drafted.  Or MAYBE he figured that if they dropped out or got kicked out of school, they'd wind up with no other job prospects EXCEPT to go enlist.  Or join a gang, maybe.

That sense of intellectual superiority was channeled by Barack Obama himself when he later tried to explain why his message was not resonating with less astute rural Pennsylvanians: "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
OK, I'll grant you that was not one of his greatest turns of phrase ever.  Then again... look who's making all the Tea Party rallies...



But hey, at least that one's SPELLED right.

During the recent Ground Zero mosque controversy, Obama returned to that Carter-Kerry-Obama sort of condescension. When asked about the overwhelming opposition to the mosque, the president felt again that the unthinking hoi polloi had given into their unfounded fears: "I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions, divisions can surface in a society."
Is there some real good reason you think that's NOT happening?

Professors and preachers may like such sermonizing, but for politicians it's a lousy way to get elected. Again, compare the relative fates of the patronizing Adlai Stevenson and the plain-speaking Harry Truman.
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
~ Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

"I never give people hell.  I just tell them the truth... and they think it's hell."
~ Harry S. Truman

Stevenson is "patronizing", huh?  OK.

For many of today's liberals, the fact that the president has to deal with so many Neanderthal know-nothings explains why he can't, as promised, close Guantanamo, end "don't ask, don't tell," or do away with Bush-era renditions, tribunals wiretaps, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's not that the Neanderthals... er, Republicans... "know nothing".  It's just that they NO EVERYTHING.

But current polls suggest that these clueless and unappreciative Americans apparently believe that an elite education does not ensure their officials can balance a budget, pay their own taxes or speak candidly.
"Current polls"?  Which "current polls" would those be?  Which Americans are the "clueless and unappreciative" ones?  The ones who are all pissed off because Obama's doing all kinds of things they don't like, or the ones who are all pissed off because he's not doing enough things they DO like?

THERE!  Did that about take care of the whole article?

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SGT. JIRI TREBISSKY H&D SAS

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Edited 1 time by Trebissky 10/02/10 20:57.